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Dr. Adiel Klompmaker / University of Alabama Alabama’s Watery Past Is a Warning
Fossils of the state’s prehistoric sea dinosaurs can tell us a thing or two about how climate change might one day affect modern animals.
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ThomPics / Getty Birds Can Hear Tsunamis Way Before They Hit
Scientists hope the ability can be turned into an early-warning system.
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Rasmus Loeth Petersen / Alamy One of the Ocean’s Biggest Threats Is Still Mostly a Mystery
There are major gaps in our understanding of invasive species.
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Yuri Cortez / AFP / Getty The Turtle Poachers Say They Have No Choice
During the pandemic, hungry Costa Ricans have been resorting to an illegal practice that was once on the decline.
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Josh Edelson / AFP / Getty California’s Cliffs Are Collapsing One by One
Researchers are stepping up their efforts to understand why—and when—bluffs come crashing down.
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Nature Picture Library / Alamy The Last Thing Albatrosses Needed Was a New Predator
Southern giant petrels are known for eating krill and fish. Why are they suddenly hunting birds their own size?
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ROBYN BECK / AFP / Getty Nature Isn’t Really Healing
Some animals have benefited from pandemic lockdowns. Others, not so much.
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Getty Big Bait Worm Knows It Has a Problem
Worm shipments are doing serious environmental damage, but the industry has been slow to adapt.
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CM Dixon / Print Collector / Getty A Milwaukee Suburb Is Full of Ultrarare Fossils
Ancient crustacean guts are miraculously preserved in a Waukesha quarry.
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RGB Ventures/SuperStock/Alamy Stock Photo Fish Sticks Make No Sense
How a weird 1950s finger food made it big
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Manuella Dultra The Sand Octopus Was Hiding in Plain Sight
And yet it took a 19th-century naturalist, a 21st-century grad student, and some Brazilian fishers to crack the mystery.
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Wikipedia 3 Miles from Martha’s Vineyard Is an Empty Island Full of Bombs
Nomans Land is no man’s land.
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WaterFrame / Alamy Do You Have More Self-Control Than a Cuttlefish?
The squishy creatures can pass the notorious marshmallow test.
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Katie Thompson / Gallery Stock Coastal Darkening Is a Hidden Environmental Nuisance
Murky water poses a growing threat to all sorts of marine life.
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Randall Benton / ZUMA Press / Alamy The Same Deadly Vitamin Deficiency Is Ravaging All Kinds of Animals
Thiamine, a nutrient no organism can live without, is mysteriously lacking in some marine ecosystems.
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Gregory Bull / AP The Bird That Builds Nests Right By Its Worst Enemy
“You can understand the predator wanting to be near the prey, but not really the other way around.”
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Shaun Swingler Congo’s Fishermen Can’t Catch a Break
The dwindling number of sharks in the country is threatening an entire micro-economy that relies on them.
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Alec Soth / Magnum Tires Are a Hidden Environmental Nuisance
The pollution that cars emit goes beyond what spews from their tailpipe.
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Mondadori / Getty Where Did Svalbard’s Shipwrecks Go?
Ship-eating worms may be devouring centuries of history.
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Kystverket / Norwegian Coastal Administration A Horrible Place for an Oil Spill
Melting sea ice is opening up the Arctic to more ships. The results could be catastrophic.
